hang me out to dry

row upon row of concrete wash pens, each fitted with its own flogging stone. The clothes are soaked in sudsy water, thrashed on the concrete slabs, then tossed into huge vats of boiling starch and hung out to dry. then they are pressed and piled into neat bundles. same color system as tiffin wallahs.

gone going goa-ne!

June 22nd 2010
In mumbai now, done and dusted with goa, where lethargy and inertia is de rigueur. The monsoon put a dampener on things, literally, as the seasonal rains deluged us on end. The torrential rainfalls put paid to the beach-bum plans, so we couldn’t really soak up the sun and sand as much as we’d fancy. Still! Goa was wicked. It necessitates that you be really deliberate and insouciant about thing ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more

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